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August 9, 2017

Guess my super mutants are poor green trash now. Built another Plas Craft Games preprinted terrain kit. This is a bit earlier kit than that Urban Range house kit and the quality isn't as good in the printing sharpness or ease of construction. Is an interesting design with the curved roof and sides of the caravan though it's massive compared to scale. I used a hair dryer to try and help with curving the panel as I glued them on but the bottom of the wrap around bit melted a bit like a shrinks dink which is annoying but what can you do. Lots of areas needed painting since the print is one sided. Need to paint the inside wall of the side shack bit with the open door.

August 8, 2017

That was a fun fairly fast paint job for such a big model. He does look a lot like gladiator Hulk which isn't a bad thing. Not 100% happy with the tires but not sure what else to do with them so calling it done. Now I'll have to do up some more super mutants. Eyeing up the bones black orcs as possible starts to them, just add bodgy guns.

Been hammering away at painting my Fallout troll, needs some drying time on that thick coat of brown on the base so I'll finish him off tomorrow. Started off with a zombie skin tone then went into darker greens in the shadows then added some browns as well to warm it a bit. Then all the armour was painted chainmail then washed with brown then mire selective rust orange pin washes then darkening panel edges. Will drybrush them a bit tomorrow then paint in the tires.

August 7, 2017

Got the idea to go through my Reaper bones minis that so far I haven't done much with and think of ways to use them for TNT or other games I'm more likely to play than DnD. The big troll caught my eye as a huge super mutant in waiting. I cut off his axe and dril through his hand to put in a bit of sprue. I cut off some spikes from the armour and added a bunch of half tires made from rolling the grip of a sculpting tool over green stuff then cutting it into strips. Looks a fair bit like tires to me. Will see after they're painted I guess. Also had a go at sculpting a VW badge on his chest. Will be adding some plates and wires poking out later. Was considering a scratchbuilt car door as a shield on the left arm. Now the question is what to turn that sprue into? A big ramshackle club? Should I make it into a street sign? Or put a fire hydrant or engine block on the end as a hammer?Tried out some instant mold last night and some green stuff push casts of a stop sign and shopping trolley then got a bit carried away with bolts and spikes and detailing the super mutant and more time making a fancy base. Cutting individual bolt heads from plastic sheet was probably a bit nuts but I love the detail it adds so it was worth it.

Another post apoc mini from an innocent bones mini, saw this guy on the rack at the LFG con on the weekend so had a dig through my bones to see if I had him then hacked which I did. So cut off his club and legs and did some sculpting, then added a M16 to his back from wargames factory. Bit of dental floss with superglue for the ribbon. Got him primed so will post when he's done. He'll be one of my traders.

August 6, 2017

I've wanted telegraph poles for my urban terrain for years but lack of O scale stuff locally has made it tricky. After contemplating how hard it would be to just make my own while stuck at traffic lights I finally just hit up the craft store to get some 6mm dowel and some slightly thicker stuff at the dollar store. Sooo here's the recipe. Dowel, match sticks, tiny glass beads, plastic rod or wire, and some thin card from food packaging.

I cut the dowel to about 16-17cm long then bashed the top a bit with a hammer cause poles look like that. Next cut down the match sticks to 3.5cm. I had tried drilling through the match sticks to secure the insulators but it kept splitting so instead I just superglued on the beads directly, then put in some bits of plastic rod, a drop of glue to secure them. Then cut a square of card then halve that and cut out the middle to get the thin L bracket. Glue that to the side of the sticks then a drop of glue on the middle of the stick and L bracket and stick it onto the pole. Do that twice. Worth mention a lot of poles have 3 then 4 insulators for some reason and usually alternating left and right for which side has two. Lastly glue the pole down to a heavy base like an MDF base or washer.